A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
JANE AUSTENOne man’s ways may be as good as another’s, but we all like our own best.
More Jane Austen Quotes
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Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.
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He is a gentleman; I am a gentleman’s daughter; so far we are equal.
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One man’s ways may be as good as another’s, but we all like our own best.
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Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity.
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Let us have the luxury of silence.
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In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.
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I have not the pleasure of understanding you.
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To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
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I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.
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You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
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You have qualities which I had not before supposed to exist in such a degree in any human creature. You have some touches of the angel in you.
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I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.
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Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its fragrance on the desert air.
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There are as many forms of love as there are moments in time.
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
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